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St Petersburg International Legal Forum

26 May 2013

On 15-17 May 2013 Professor Timothy Endicott attended the St Petersburg International Legal Forum and took part in the Plenary Session 'Competition and Cooperation between Legal Systems', and in a roundtable discussion on legal education.

Other panellists in the plenary session included Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Ivo Opstelten, Minister of Security and Justice of the Netherlands, Peter Tomka, President of the International Court of Justice, Berik Imashev, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Valery Zorkin, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, and Michael Reynolds, President of the International Bar Association.

This year's event was the third annual St Petersburg International Legal Forum; the Forum is the largest legal event in Russia, Eastern Europe and CIS region. It has become an annual platform for discussion among thousands of politicians, lawyers, businessmen and scholars from around the world.

You can listen to the plenary session and will find Timothy's section starts at approximately 57.30